Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool.


Journal

Current biology : CB
ISSN: 1879-0445
Titre abrégé: Curr Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9107782

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
05 06 2023
Historique:
medline: 8 6 2023
pubmed: 7 6 2023
entrez: 6 6 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

For more than 400 million years, mycorrhizal fungi and plants have formed partnerships that are crucial to the emergence and functioning of global ecosystems. The importance of these symbiotic fungi for plant nutrition is well established. However, the role of mycorrhizal fungi in transporting carbon into soil systems on a global scale remains under-explored. This is surprising given that ∼75% of terrestrial carbon is stored belowground and mycorrhizal fungi are stationed at a key entry point of carbon into soil food webs. Here, we analyze nearly 200 datasets to provide the first global quantitative estimates of carbon allocation from plants to the mycelium of mycorrhizal fungi. We estimate that global plant communities allocate 3.93 Gt CO

Identifiants

pubmed: 37279689
pii: S0960-9822(23)00167-7
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.027
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Carbon 7440-44-0
Soil 0

Types de publication

Journal Article Review Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

R560-R573

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests.

Auteurs

Heidi-Jayne Hawkins (HJ)

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7701, South Africa; Conservation International, Forrest House, Belmont Park, Cape Town 7700, South Africa. Electronic address: heidi.hawkins@uct.ac.za.

Rachael I M Cargill (RIM)

Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; AMOLF, Science Park 102, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Michael E Van Nuland (ME)

Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, SPUN, 3500 South DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901, USA.

Stephen C Hagen (SC)

ESScience, LLC, Madbury, NH 03823, USA.

Katie J Field (KJ)

Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil, School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

Merlin Sheldrake (M)

Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, SPUN, 3500 South DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901, USA.

Nadejda A Soudzilovskaia (NA)

Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium.

E Toby Kiers (ET)

Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, SPUN, 3500 South DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901, USA.

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